brap:I don't remember that one. The VHS tapes I DO remember circulating were the Heavy Metal Parking Lot videos and the one of the Farting Preacher.

Good times, good times.

I don't remember the video either, but I'm sure I remember the audio. HMPL is of course an absolute classic... have you seen the official DVD documentary on it? Its quite awesome, and loaded with a ton of extra features. They even track some of the people down, etc.

I remember this! Man, bootleg tapes were fun as hell. Shut Up Little Man? Or the best was when some folks in the british punk group CRASS tape spliced a phone conversation btw Ol'Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher, and released it to the media, whole bought it completely...

I wonder how many kids the kind of drug education that suggests marijuana = cocaine = heroin farked up. I mean, if you end up trying ganja and realize that it isn't bad or habit forming and is, in fact, quite pleasant perhaps they were lying to you about heroin or PCP.

Mercutio74:I wonder how many kids the kind of drug education that suggests marijuana = cocaine = heroin farked up. I mean, if you end up trying ganja and realize that it isn't bad or habit forming and is, in fact, quite pleasant perhaps they were lying to you about heroin or PCP.

downstairs:brap: I don't remember that one. The VHS tapes I DO remember circulating were the Heavy Metal Parking Lot videos and the one of the Farting Preacher.

Good times, good times.

I don't remember the video either, but I'm sure I remember the audio. HMPL is of course an absolute classic... have you seen the official DVD documentary on it? Its quite awesome, and loaded with a ton of extra features. They even track some of the people down, etc.

brap:I don't remember that one. The VHS tapes I DO remember circulating were the Heavy Metal Parking Lot videos and the one of the Farting Preacher.

Good times, good times.

Here's something else I remember:

Back during the 1992 presidential race, there was a guy who called himself "The Invisible Man" who made these audio edit remixes of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton speeches and set them music. I think they got a little bit of airplay on WMMR in Philly.

alizeran:I remember this! Man, bootleg tapes were fun as hell. Shut Up Little Man? Or the best was when some folks in the british punk group CRASS tape spliced a phone conversation btw Ol'Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher, and released it to the media, whole bought it completely...

...good times.

Have you seen the documentary about "Shut Up Little Man" ? Its great... totally worth watching.

downstairs:alizeran: I remember this! Man, bootleg tapes were fun as hell. Shut Up Little Man? Or the best was when some folks in the british punk group CRASS tape spliced a phone conversation btw Ol'Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher, and released it to the media, whole bought it completely...

...good times.

Have you seen the documentary about "Shut Up Little Man" ? Its great... totally worth watching.

I have. I wouldn't call it "great" as the material is stretched a bit thin, but it is worth watching.

brap:downstairs: alizeran: I remember this! Man, bootleg tapes were fun as hell. Shut Up Little Man? Or the best was when some folks in the british punk group CRASS tape spliced a phone conversation btw Ol'Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher, and released it to the media, whole bought it completely...

...good times.

Have you seen the documentary about "Shut Up Little Man" ? Its great... totally worth watching.

I have. I wouldn't call it "great" as the material is stretched a bit thin, but it is worth watching.

Yeah I watched it... What it lacked in documentarian cinematic flair it more that made up for in actual footage of the characters that were so influential in my teenage years whom had only previously existed on cassette tapes.

I'm still on the fence as to whether the internet has or has not cheapened prank culture.

brap:downstairs: alizeran: I remember this! Man, bootleg tapes were fun as hell. Shut Up Little Man? Or the best was when some folks in the british punk group CRASS tape spliced a phone conversation btw Ol'Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher, and released it to the media, whole bought it completely...

...good times.

Have you seen the documentary about "Shut Up Little Man" ? Its great... totally worth watching.

I have. I wouldn't call it "great" as the material is stretched a bit thin, but it is worth watching.

Yeah, "great" was probably a bit much on my part. However, for some reason (and I collected these types of tapes in my youth)... I had never heard about "Shut Up Little Man" until I saw the documentary. Probably made my experience better than those that already knew of the tapes.

Bah, in my day your browser was rn, gopher, ftp, and archie. We were drowning in a sea of memes! Every 36 hours you would login and start to download the next kilobyte of a multipart file in alt.sex.binaries.lolcats, and in a few scant fortnights, you could assemble the black & white .rle image, which would fail six times out of seven because of someone's damned call waiting somewhere between Acron and Bowling Green.

downstairs:Yeah, "great" was probably a bit much on my part. However, for some reason (and I collected these types of tapes in my youth)... I had never heard about "Shut Up Little Man" until I saw the documentary. Probably made my experience better than those that already knew of the tapes.

You would probably like "Red" a movie that reenacts the Tube Bar Tapes, prank calls made to the bar's bartender in the 70s.

Stuff like, I'd like to speak to Al, Koholic,is there an Al Koholic there?

sid244:Rockstone: The internet is much older than 1986.... did not become popular or commercially available until the early 90's, Metacrawler was your search engine, and you installed NetScape b/c IE sucked.

Not to mention that video formats such as MPEG-1 didn't exist till 1993. Netscape Navigator was first released in 1994. I don't recall at what point thereafter I saw my first internet video but I recall it was small and had lousy quality because it had to be since it still took a fair while do download with my 56K modem.

true but in 1986 it was not widely commercially available and therefore not a viable source to spread entertainment or information. It started commercial spead about 1992 and even then was only something us nerds did for about 6-8 years afterwards

alizeran:I'm still on the fence as to whether the internet has or has not cheapened prank culture.

On one hand, you have the Farva-style pranks like Jackass and CKY; on the other hand, you end up with awesome pranks like Prank Wars. So yeah, it's hard to tell.

HairBolus:I don't recall at what point thereafter I saw my first internet video but I recall it was small and had lousy quality because it had to be since it still took a fair while do download with my 56K modem.

The first internet mash-up video I ever saw was in 1995. It's a low quality fan made ST:TNG parody (NSFW) that I have since put on my youtube channel. My brother got it off the U of Illinois network, which had T1 connections in the dorms back then. The next video I saw back then was a little known video called "The Spirit of Christmas".

HairBolus:I don't recall at what point thereafter I saw my first internet video but I recall it was small and had lousy quality because it had to be since it still took a fair while do download with my 56K modem.

ristst:After looking at this article I'm even *more* confused as to what the fark a "meme" is.

Memetic. A self propagating idea. Dont be distracted by the medium. I think it was a Dawkins book in the late seventies. Didn't he coin "memetics"?/i, too, have some capital letters that follow my name, but yours are worth more in scrabble, so...

ristst:After looking at this article I'm even *more* confused as to what the fark a "meme" is. And I have my MCSE and CCNA...!

WHAT THE FARK

This really wasn't a meme. At best it was a viral video.

CSB time: I had a tape of this in the late 80s. Wife was working in Manhattan and we got all the cool VHS copy of a copy of a copies. We got this one, fun with father, and even the original South Park xmas card (soxmas).

sid244:Rockstone: The internet is much older than 1986.... did not become popular or commercially available until the early 90's, Metacrawler was your search engine, and you installed NetScape b/c IE sucked.